Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
A New You in 2022
Posted about 4 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Book Reviews, Cooking, Families, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction
| Tagged with celebrity, clean eating, cookbook, diet, endometriosis, flavor, food, food is medicine, healing, health and wellness, immune system, junk food, lifestyle, migraines, plant-based, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
So, we’ve come through well over a year of quarantine. It has become clear that physical health, including astrong immune system, is very important. This is a good time to revisit, […]
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Most Anticipated YA Books of 2022 (the first half)
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #2022releases, #2022yareleases, #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #ireadya, #mostanticipated, #yabooks, #yareads, tbr
Wow! It has been quite a year for YA books. Would you agree? I’ve enjoyed some great new YA titles this year including A Complicated Love Story Set in Space […]
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Bah! Humbug!
Posted about 4 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews
| Tagged with #bahhumbug, #bookrecommendations, #cookies, Fiction, holidays, reading suggestions
Bah! Humbug! How did this phrase come to convey curmudgeonly displeasure? The origin of the word humbug is unknown. It emerged in England in the mid-18th century, with a first […]
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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Biographies, environment, Events, Families, Health and Wellness, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens, Women's History
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the […]
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Music of the Month – December 2021
Posted about 4 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
MUSIC OF THE MONTH IS A MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF RPL’S MUSIC-RELATED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES. Gellman Room Concerts The 2021-2022 Gellman Room Concert season is here! You can always watch […]
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Master Gardener Virtual Help Desk
Posted about 4 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, crafts and hobbies, Gardening, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with cooperative extension, gardening, gardens, master gardener
When the pandemic began in Spring 2020, the Richmond Public Library and Richmond Master Gardeners created the Virtual Help Desk, a way for people to connect with experts for all […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Something You’ve Always Wanted to Learn About
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, ireadya, readingchallenge, recommendedreads, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
Well readers, we’ve made it to the end of the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! This post highlights Prompt #12, our last official prompt. Prompt #12 asks you to read […]
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Veterans Day
Posted about 4 years ago by Laura Price
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holidays; celebrations, Veterans
| Tagged with book recommendations, Fiction, Veterans Day
“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude […]
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Music of the Month – November 2021
Posted about 4 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
MUSIC OF THE MONTH IS A MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF RPL’S MUSIC-RELATED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES. Gellman Room Concerts The 2021-2022 Gellman Room Concert season is here! You can always watch […]
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National American Indian Heritage Month
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Book Reviews, environment, Events, Families, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Reading Recommendations
Introduction National American Indian Heritage Month has particular significance to Virginia, home to eleven state recognized American Indian tribes. “State recognition is the formal declaration of recognition to an American […]
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